Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inequality between rich and poor, to the extent that it was based on the ownership of property, has been virtually eliminated. Except for taxi cubs and a few other minor exceptions, all non-agricultural means of production are owned by the state, and the government owns about 60 per cent of all the land. And the social inequality due to ownership of property is pretty much gone. There are still some peasants, who by Cuban standards are fairly wealthy and you can make a very good living through owning housing. Private Individuals Can Still Own And Rent Housing...
DAYTON, OHIO. Kenley Players. A psychiatrist can understand everything about adolescents except his own teen-age daughter, who throws the bull in his court during The Impossible Years, by Robert Fisher and Arthur Marx...
...Except for Me and Thee, West...
...hasn't been to a university but she has read everything and remembers it. Her ideals are high and unsullied. She works (or has worked) at lost political causes. Although she loathes marriage, she gamely raises children and endures domestic woes. She cooks well, keeps a spotless house (except when depressed) and does excellent writing, research or secretarial work. She is any man's moral and intellectual superior, and she rarely hesitates to tell...
...Pewter. Treated warily by Congress, the academy on at least one occasion survived an appropriations ballot by a single vote. Fortunately, the performance of West Point officers during America's various wars kept the school from being abolished. In the War of 1812, while the militia (except for Jackson's defense of New Orleans) was a disgrace to the nation, not a single fort constructed by West Point graduates fell into the hands of the British...